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26 May 2012, 5:24 am
The Commission's report - which encompasses the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the Windham School District, and the Correctional Managed Health Care Committee - makes various recommendations with which TCJC agrees. [read post]
24 May 2012, 7:10 pm
Some criminal justice experts believe life without parole should be reserved for heinous murders, solely as an alternative to the death penalty. [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:31 pm
The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole on Monday unanimously recommended against clemency for death-row inmate and convicted killer Ronald Smith, saying his death penalty should stand. [read post]
22 May 2012, 12:25 pm
See related Grits posts:Tidbits from the parole board's 'self-evaluation' Federal judge bench slaps parole board over assigning sex-offender conditions without due process Did parole board dawdling create civil liability for Texas on sex-offender conditions? [read post]
22 May 2012, 1:11 am
" Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles, and other parole officials were not available to comment Monday. [read post]
21 May 2012, 12:54 pm
Under state law, he must have a recommendation from the Ohio Parole Board before acting. [read post]
16 May 2012, 4:16 pm
Once the Mississippi Parole Board signed off on Bostick's pardon request Barbour signed it on January 10, 2012. [read post]
14 May 2012, 11:59 am
Clemency Defined Clemency is a mitigation of penalties; a pardon; a discharge from prison; reduction of felony prison sentencing; a reprieve or a temporary delay or suspension of sentencing. [read post]
4 May 2012, 10:05 am
Capital punishment is gone from nearly all other Western democracies, and so the spectacle on display at the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole this week would have been unthinkable almost anywhere else in the West. [read post]
3 May 2012, 6:30 pm
More than 20 witnesses spoke to the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole. [read post]
3 May 2012, 1:43 pm
Montana Board Hears Mercy Case for Canadian on Death Row: David Murray of the Great Falls Tribune reports convicted murderer Ronald Smith, who has admitted to being the gunman in two 1982 murders, had his clemency hearing before the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole Wednesday, asking to have his death sentence commuted to life without the possibility of parole. [read post]
1 May 2012, 9:26 am
On Wednesday, Smith is scheduled to appear before the Montana Board of Pardons and Parole one last time. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 11:42 am
The move by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles to reduce Daniel Greene's death sentence to life in prison without parole came days after the board stayed his execution. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 10:55 am
Sentence of Georgia Death Row Inmate Commuted to LWOP: A News Release by Steve Hayes, Director of Public Affairs for the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles, reports clemency was granted to condemned inmate Daniel Greene. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 6:28 am
More than 32,000 people have signed an online petition urging Governor Rick Perry and the Board of Pardons and Paroles to pardon Kerry Max Cook, who was falsely convicted of murder in Tyler, was cleared by DNA after 20 years on death row, but has never been formally exonerated. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 9:18 am
Stay of Execution Granted to Georgia Inmate: Bill Rankin of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole on Tuesday granted a stay of execution to Daniel Greene, who was scheduled to be executed Thursday for killing 19-year-old Bernard Walker in 1991. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 8:38 am
The board last commuted a case to life without parole in 2008. [read post]
15 Apr 2012, 10:34 pm
On September 30, the Mississippi Parole Board sent its review of Bostick's application to Barbour, recommending a full pardon in a 3-2 vote.Except, see, on October 7 (which is just a week after September 30 but several months before the January pardon, if you're trying to keep this straight)Bostick was driving under the influence again, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol. [read post]
12 Apr 2012, 9:42 am
She said the stay was issued so her legal team could have more time to consider a 2005 recommendation by the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board to commute his sentence to life. [read post]
11 Apr 2012, 11:09 am
While these factors contribute to a lack of consistency when dealing with probation and parole, the primary obstacle to detailing specific state protocols is that the practice of granting probation and/or parole at the state level is dependent on the discretionary powers of select individuals, such as the prosecutor, the judicial authority, and the parole board, to name just a few. [read post]
